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And now, thanks to new technology, the original footage taken by astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin in 1969 has been turned into a high definition video, complete with sound.

With help from NASA, Canadian astronaut aficionado Robert Godwin used digital technology to transfer the 16mm film clips to high definition DVD and Blu-Ray Disc. He also took separate audio and synched it up to the video.

“What we have here is the first high-definition transfer of the first colour pictures taken on the moon,” says Godwin.

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Drag and Draw is a set of digital drawing tools. It consists of a multicolor ‘Brush’, an ‘Eraser’, and a ‘Magic Wand’ to bring their drawings to life and a ‘Bucket’ to project the virtual drawings onto the wall.

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NBC has targeted Jimmy Fallon to replace Conan O’Brien in 2009, according to people familiar with the talks.
 
Fallon is NBC’s favorite to take over from O’Brien, who currently hosts Late Night With Conan O’Brien after The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.NBC late-night chief Rick Ludwin says he doesn’t expect to make an announcement until sometime after the first of the year, but he confirmed that Fallon is on the top of the network’s list.

“I think he’d be terrific, and he is at the top of our short list,” Ludwin says.

As reported by B&C in February, Fallon signed a developmental deal with NBC earlier this year, a deal that at the time included the possibility of his replacing O’Brien, who is scheduled to take over Leno’s chair in 2009.

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